New Ways To Close The Care Navigation Gap For Seniors And Families Navigating the complex and fragmented systems of medical and long-term care is one of the biggest challenges family caregivers face. New services are filling the gaps.

Families need help navigating the complex and fragmented worlds of health care and social supports. Here are some who are stepping in: www.forbes.com/sites/howard...

Trump May Have Won The ACA Subsidy Battle, But He May Lose The War The GOP either must agree to extend those insurance subsidies or take sole blame for killing an effort to continue assistance that has overwhelming public support.

It may look like Senate Democrats capitulated on extra ACA subsidies, but they may get them anyway: www.forbes.com/sites/howard...

Trump Tariff Cases Before The Supreme Court Are A Big Deal. Here’s Why The decision will have a significant impact on Trump’s expansive use of what he calls emergency presidential power.

The Supreme Court is hearing Trump's tariffs case today. My Forbes column on what is at stake: www.forbes.com/sites/howard...

Trump Tariff Cases Before The Supreme Court Are A Big Deal. Here’s Why The decision, which could come within a few months, will have a significant impact on Trump’s expansive use of what he calls emergency presidential power.

The Supreme Court will hear the Trump tariff cases on Wednesday. It is a big deal for your wallet and the separation of powers. My take here: www.forbes.com/sites/howard...

Pols Fear Social Security Reform, But Experts Lean In With Solutions Policy experts across the political spectrum share similar goals: To restore long-term solvency while improving its ability to support lower-income workers in old age.

Pols may fear Social Security reform, but policy analysts are leaning in, with some surprising agreements: www.forbes.com/sites/howard...

What's Next For Tax Policy?

Had the opportunity to chat with Concord Coalition's Bob Bixby about the future of tax policy. Convo included tariffs, the IRS, and where the tax code is headed. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/4RFr...

Trump IRS Would Use Investigators To Target Perceived Political Foes The Administration plans to use the IRS to pursue criminal tax fraud investigations against left-leaning organizations.

Connecting the dots: First Trump expands the definition of terrorism to include political opponents, then he plans to use the IRS criminal division to investigate these newly alleged crimes: www.forbes.com/sites/howard...

How Trump Alleges Terrorism To Expand His War On Tax-Exempt Groups They’d do it by expanding the definition of terrorism and revoking the tax-exemption for groups that allegedly support such activity in broad, but unspecified ways.

How Trump would use claims of terrorism to attack tax-exempt groups he dislikes: www.forbes.com/sites/howard...

Age-Friendly Ecosystem Summit | School of Nursing | The George Washington University Register now for the 2025 Age-Friendly Ecosystem Summit.

Join me virtually on Thursday from 1-3 PM for GWU's Age Friendly Eco-System Summit. I'll be on the opening panel with aging policy rock stars Bob Blancato, Alison Barkoff, and Trish D’Antonio. Details and register here: nursing.gwu.edu/age-friendly...

No, Taxes Are Not The Main Reason Seniors Are Reluctant To Move Taxes play a part in their unwillingness to move, but bigger reasons include the absence of affordable, accessible housing and emotional ties to homes and communities.

Some argue capital gains taxes keep seniors from selling their homes. There are much more important reasons: www.forbes.com/sites/howard...

What The Government Shutdown Means For Older Adults And People With Disabilities The government shutdown could have a severe impact on the well-being of older adults and younger people with disabilities, depending on how long it lasts.

The government shutdown is bad news for older adults and younger people with disabilities: www.forbes.com/sites/howard...

How New Vaccine Guidelines May Put Older Adults At Risk Warnings about the dangers of vaccines from senior government officials inevitably will lead to more unnecessary sickness and death, especially among older adults.

How ACIP's new vaccine guidelines can put older adults at risk: www.forbes.com/sites/howard...

What The Ugly History of Tax Policy Over The Past Four Decades Means For The Future Tax policy and the way it is produced changed dramatically, and not, sadly, for the better.

A look back at four decades of US tax policy. It is not a pretty sight: taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/what-...

Congress Moves To Allow Large Corporations To Continue To Hide Tax Payments If enacted, the House Republicans’ appropriations measure would kill those rules, though its fate is uncertain.

How a House spending bill would block efforts to enhance disclosure of corporate tax payments: taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/congr...

How The Health Care System Can Better Support Family Caregivers Family caregivers help frail older adults and people with disabilities. But they get little support from the health care system. Two non-profits have solutions.

The health care system is failing family caregivers. My look at some new ideas on how it can help them: www.forbes.com/sites/howard... #seniors #olderadults @NA4Caregiving

Why Trump’s Efforts To Revoke Tax-Exemptions Are So Dangerous President Trump’s multiple threats to revoke the tax-exempt status of organizations that disagree with him have deeply troubling implications for the credibility of the federal revenue system and for ...

VP Vance wants to revoke the tax-exempt status of foundations that support grantees that he says use hate speech. When Trump made similar threats against Harvard, I looked at the tax law. This is what I found: taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/why-t...

Long-Term Care Costs More Than Many Think And, No, Medicare Won’t Pay Two recent studies help explain how Americans think about the financial aspects of their long-term care needs, and why they are so poorly prepared.

Two new studies help explain why so many Americans are baffled by long-term care. My take here: www.forbes.com/sites/howard...

Trump's deal with Nvidia and AMD is an export tax, though they won't say so. Here's why: taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/troub...

Correcting the Social Security Administration About The Big Budget Bill The misleading communication from SSA may add to the confusion many older adults already feel about the complex retirement insurance program.

President Trump used the anniversary of Social Security to say he exempted all recipients from tax on their benefits and made the program stronger. Neither claim is true: taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/corre...

How The 2025 Budget Act Accelerates Social Security’s Insolvency If the Social Security actuary is right, President Trump’s successor won’t have the option to ignore Social Security.

The big 2025 budget bill makes Social Security less stable. Here's how, and what it means: taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/how-2...

Hospitals Must Better Identify And Manage Delirium In Seniors As many as three in ten older patients may acquire delirium in the hospital. And the consequences can be severe, including longer hospital stays and even death.

What can be done to reduce the epidemic of delirium among hospitalized older adults: www.forbes.com/sites/howard...

The Budget Law’s Tax Cuts For Overtime And Tips Are Popular, But Few Will Benefit TPC estimates show that few will gain from new deductions for qualifying tip income and overtime pay, and the deduction for those over age 65 will only benefit half of those in that age group.

How many households will benefit from the new tax deductions for tips, overtime, and seniors? Lots fewer than you probably thought: taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/budge...

What Older Adults Need To Know About Trump’s Changes To Medicare Trump is changing Medicare, mostly focusing on providers. But the biggest impact may come from tariffs and deporting immigrants. Combined, these direct and indirect c

While people are focusing on the big budget bill's Medicaid cuts, Trump is quietly making big changes to Medicare: www.forbes.com/sites/howard...

Who Are Family Caregivers Of Seniors And People With Disabilities? Millions of Americans are struggling to care for relatives who increasingly need help with their daily activities, from bathing to shopping.

A new study by AARP and the Nat. Alliance for Caregiving paints a picture of family caregivers struggling to support their loved ones. Here is a look at what it found: www.forbes.com/sites/howard...

What Will The Tax Provisions Of The Big Budget Bill Really Do?

The tax provisions of the big budget bill are regressive, complicated, expensive, and inequitable: taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/what-...

Correcting the Social Security Administration About The Big Budget Bill The misleading communication from SSA may add to the confusion many older adults already feel about the complex retirement insurance program.

The Social Security Administration misrepresented the effect of the new senior tax deduction. This is what really happens: taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/corre...

Why The Senate’s Efforts To Make Corporate Tax Cuts Permanent May Prove Futile Historically, controversial tax changes rarely are permanent.

The Senate worked really hard to make the TCJA's corporate tax cuts permanent, cutting Medicaid and even manipulating budget scoring. It probably was a waste of time. Permanent tax cuts rarely are: taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/why-s...

What Seniors Need To Know About Congress’s Big Budget Bill The budget bill would slash safety net programs for older adults, people with disabilities, and their family caregivers. The bill also lowers taxes for some seniors.

The just-passed tax and budget bill will have a profound impact on older adults and people with disabilities. Here's what they need to know: www.forbes.com/sites/howard...

The Pending Senate Budget Bill Is Even More Regressive Than The Finance Panel’s Version The current Senate version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) would distribute most of those additional tax cuts to the highest-income households. The main reason is the way it treats the state...

The tax provisions of the Senate's big budget bill are becoming even more regressive, TPC finds: taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/pendi...

TPC Finds The Senate’s Draft Tax Cut Still Mostly Favors High-Income Households The tax provisions of the Senate Finance Committee’s draft budget bill would cut household taxes by an average of about $2,600 in 2026, slightly less than the House-passed bill, according to a new Tax...

Like the House version, the big Senate Finance Committee tax bill would focus most benefits on high-income households: taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/tpc-f...